Confirmed with Link: Penguins and Mike Sullivan part ways

[Honour Over Glory]

I am literally laughing myself into a hospital over this whole thread. Joyous times.

(The hospital is a maternity hospital, but the point remains.)

Exciting day for you mate!!

 

[Honour Over Glory]

It's wild to me that people pay to read Yohe and Rossi, man. Just bonkers shit.

HFboards is free and even this collection of psychos has more insight and just as much insider knowledge.

How else would idiots know “Sullivan revolutionized a forecheck!” Or some dumb f*** hot take lol.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

if you have the speed to make his concepts work, yes. People are giving you a lot of snarky comments, because we're like one day into a 4-month-long pissing on his grave, so we're not in the mood to talk him up, but if your personnel can run his system, you'll be successful. If they can't, you'll be the Penguins.

Selfishly, I hope you can't, because we NEED McKenna. It's been 20 years since we've drafted a generational player.

I think this is very fair but to be clear I'm not JUST being snarky... I think Sullivan would be a poor fit there and is going to prove to be a mediocre to bad coach in general over the course of the next several years.

The dude has been living off his past accomplishments a LONG time, now.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Exciting day for you mate!!

Thanks mate, we might still be as much as 48 hours off, but the ob-gyn told us to go get everything checked out because it's definitely starting.

 

[IcedCapp]

I think this is very fair but to be clear I'm not JUST being snarky... I think Sullivan would be a poor fit there and is going to prove to be a mediocre to bad coach in general over the course of the next several years.

The dude has been living off his past accomplishments a LONG time, now.

but those accomplishments came off real good work.

He was also done in, like Bylsma, by some atrocious goalie play, which makes his later years look a bit worse than they actually were (i'm not talking about the last 3 years, some of Jarry's collapses before that)

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

I think this is very fair but to be clear I'm not JUST being snarky... I think Sullivan would be a poor fit there and is going to prove to be a mediocre to bad coach in general over the course of the next several years.

He lost the plot as of late. So dumb to not fire him after 2023.

But past the b2b I always will give him kudos for how good this team was when we had those stretches when we got slaughtered with injuries to the top guys. And it’s not like we had super teams outside of 87/71/58.

I think all coaches have a shelf life and ultimately aren’t super important but overall I think he’s one of the not-bad ones.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

but those accomplishments came off real good work.

He was also done in, like Bylsma, by some atrocious goalie play, which makes his later years look a bit worse than they actually were (i'm not talking about the last 3 years, some of Jarry's collapses before that)

He lost the plot as of late. So dumb to not fire him after 2023.

But past the b2b I always will give him kudos for how good this team was when we had those stretches when we got slaughtered with injuries to the top guys. And it’s not like we had super teams outside of 87/71/58.

I think all coaches have a shelf life and ultimately aren’t super important but overall I think he’s one of the not-bad ones.

I could well be wrong and he goes on to have a new renaissance like Fleury or something but like... why didn't we see any of that, here? At least not since back then?

I will never take what Sullivan did in 16 and 17 away from him. He DID do legit good work then... called up and played the right players... pushed the right buttons. And he's had fits and starts of some sound decision making and runs on occasion where he has managed to make chicken salad outta chicken shit but like... don't those seem AWFULLY far and few between since those B2B Cups? I just feel like there is every bit as good a chance or better that the MAJORITY of his time here is more indicative of the type of coach/person he is than those two years. That he was simply right place right time and made all the right moves when given that opportunity.

Something DID change, though... after that second Cup. So there is a chance that he finds THAT guy again I suppose. But I just wouldn't bet on it I guess?

 

[SEALBound]

I am gonna laugh really hard if Sully's first act as a coach somewhere is to ask the GM to pay any price to land Bryan Rust.

It would fantastic to loot the NYR even further!

I am literally laughing myself into a hospital over this whole thread. Joyous times.

(The hospital is a maternity hospital, but the point remains.)

I think most of us assumed you were already posting from a mental hospital. Is that the not the current case?

 

[Mr. T]

Just drove by the arena and it appears Josh Yohe has handcuffed himself to the entrance and refuses to leave until Mike Sullivan is immediately reinstated.

 

[Mr. T]

Thanks mate, we might still be as much as 48 hours off, but the ob-gyn told us to go get everything checked out because it's definitely starting.

Good luck, big dawg. Your first?

 

[bambamcam4ever]

So... would all you nice people recommend Coach Sullivan to a friendly neighbourly franchise?

Yes, he's a very good coach and probably the biggest reason for the 2016 cup. There's a lot of group think on these boards where some posters, including one less than stable individual, blame him for everything that goes wrong with the Penguins. But I hope the Rangers don't get him given the Penguins have their 1st next year.

 

[Gurglesons]

Just drove by the arena and it appears Josh Yohe has handcuffed himself to the entrance and refuses to leave until Mike Sullivan is immediately reinstated.

No, Yohe's moved on to another Sulltard.

 

[Pens x]

Gross, Dubi was too much of a coward to say Sully was fired

 

[Empoleon8771]

I was told he would be hired 20 minutes after being let go. No way our media was wrong so he must have and we didn’t get notified.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

It's insane to me the constant mystique around Tocchet as a coach. Dude's sucked shit everywhere he's ever been as a HC. f*** Rick Tocchet.

Awesome body of work.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Good luck, big dawg. Your first?

Yep! Nurse checked us and told us to go home to get some sleep until the water breaks or the contractions start coming fast and furious style like a Noel Acciari forecheck. So in other words, only come back once every five minutes something not quite eventful happens.

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

So 5 out of 6 non Pens vacancies. I wonder who didn’t hit him up.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

It's insane to me the constant mystique around Tocchet as a coach. Dude's sucked shit everywhere he's ever been as a HC. f*** Rick Tocchet.

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Awesome body of work.

Hey better than the super misunderstood and secretly actually awesome it's just groupthink guys Mike Sullivan the last 5-7 years... or at least about the same eh?

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

Hey better than the super misunderstood and secretly actually awesome it's just groupthink guys Mike Sullivan the last 7 years... or at least about the same eh?

Fair. Those are top 2-3 coach in the sport numbers since 2016-17.

 

[IcedCapp]

It's insane to me the constant mystique around Tocchet as a coach. Dude's sucked shit everywhere he's ever been as a HC. f*** Rick Tocchet.

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Awesome body of work.

I feel like his entire 'mystique' is built off of being called the Kessel Whisperer when they were together in Pittsburgh.

I think that's probably where he should be in the league: an assistant coach who can work with talented bozos

 

[Empoleon8771]

So 5 out of 6 non Pens vacancies. I wonder who didn’t hit him up.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were some teams out there with current head coaches that just reached out just to see if Sullivan would be interested. Same way that St. Louis fired their old coach once Jim Montgomery became available.

But yeah, I 100% expect the Bruins and Rangers to be 2 of the teams going hard after Sullivan.

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

It's insane to me the constant mystique around Tocchet as a coach. Dude's sucked shit everywhere he's ever been as a HC. f*** Rick Tocchet.

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Awesome body of work.

Exactly why I’m happy with him. I’m sure he will bury a skilled Euro or three but we will stink and the players will enjoy playing for him. And then no one will have a problem firing him.

What we don’t want is a guy to come in and get results from the sum of the parts

 

[IcedCapp]

So 5 out of 6 non Pens vacancies. I wonder who didn’t hit him up.

Flyers. They saw how the Philly => Pittsburgh connection worked for management, no way they're pulling the reverse

 

[Khelandros]

Flyers. They saw how the Philly => Pittsburgh connection worked for management, no way they're pulling the reverse

So 5 out of 6 non Pens vacancies. I wonder who didn’t hit him up.

Boston most likely.

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

But yeah, I 100% expect the Bruins and Rangers to be 2 of the teams going hard after Sullivan.

Imagine every decision in your life leading to you being 57 years old and getting the privilege to choose between working for Jacobs or Dolan.